Occupational Health Service (OHS)
The Occupational Health group serves as a national leader in occupational health, aiming to achieve optimal workforce productivity and health through innovation, prevention, and health management. The group supports the mission of VA through the use of evidence-based principles of occupational health in order to maintain and advance a productive, healthy, safe, and agile workforce through policy, assessment, consultation, and assurance.
Occupational Health consists of several programs including: Employee Health Promotion Disease and Impairment Prevention, Employee Occupational Health, Workers’ Compensation, Occupational Health Surveillance and Evaluation, Safe Patient Handling, and Workplace Violence Prevention.
For more information go to the Occupational Health site: http://www.publichealth.va.gov/about/occhealth/index.asp
